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People like Cooney, DVD, Andy Vaughn etc are the guys who will initiate first contact with players letting them know if the staff is interested & send to the coaches who then watch the tape & eval if they're good enough for an offer.

The coaches have quality control assistants & GA's who job it is to watch film & do the grunt work while the position coaches are handling their other responsibilities.

The recruiting department puts together events, keeps in contact with players & sets up UV's & OV's for the players, the coaches keep in contact with them as well & will evaluate their tape & in person camp performances.

There's nothing wrong with having the coaches be the main evaluators of potential prospects, it's a collaborative effort it won't just be the coaches doing it alone, they'll just have the main say on if the prospect is worthy of an offer.

Freshman

People like Cooney, DVD, Andy Vaughn etc are the guys who will initiate first contact with players letting them know if the staff is interested & send to the coaches who then watch the tape & eval if they're good enough for an offer.

The coaches have quality control assistants & GA's who job it is to watch film & do the grunt work while the position coaches are handling their other responsibilities.

The recruiting department puts together events, keeps in contact with players & sets up UV's & OV's for the players, the coaches keep in contact with them as well & will evaluate their tape & in person camp performances.

There's nothing wrong with having the coaches be the main evaluators of potential prospects, it's a collaborative effort it won't just be the coaches doing it alone, they'll just have the main say on if the prospect is worthy of an offer.

All-ACC

I've seen the full range of RCs over the years. In the early '80's, Suzy Wilkoff was our RC. I suspect she was basically an administrator, arranging visits and paperwork and so on. She did occupy a similar position at SMU before probation, helping to recruit the Pony Express (Craig James and Eric Dickerson.) Still I doubt she had evaluation expertise.

We had guys like Dave Scott who was a baseball coach before he was a RC. Still, he probably had a better grasp of athletics in general than Suzy.

Pete Garcia had some personnel experience with the Dolphins but I can't remember if it was before or after he became RC. He might have been an intern or assistant in the recruiting office.

So, some of these guys had substantive football experience. I would tend to favor Manny's approach. Have the guys who will coach them evaluate them.

Senior

▪ One UM official said even though Diaz has prioritized local recruiting, he’s determined to land elite players from out of town. He also wants his coaches taking the lead in evaluating prospects.
Former player personnel director Matt Doherty, who was replaced by Andy Vaughn, had wanted to evaluate players, according to a UM source, but Diaz prefers the person in that role be an organizer primarily, with some other responsibilities.

Senior

People like Cooney, DVD, Andy Vaughn etc are the guys who will initiate first contact with players letting them know if the staff is interested & send to the coaches who then watch the tape & eval if they're good enough for an offer.

The coaches have quality control assistants & GA's who job it is to watch film & do the grunt work while the position coaches are handling their other responsibilities.

The recruiting department puts together events, keeps in contact with players & sets up UV's & OV's for the players, the coaches keep in contact with them as well & will evaluate their tape & in person camp performances.

There's nothing wrong with having the coaches be the main evaluators of potential prospects, it's a collaborative effort it won't just be the coaches doing it alone, they'll just have the main say on if the prospect is worthy of an offer.

Just because Barry Jackson is saying that’s how it was, doesn’t actually mean that’s how it was. Or he could be misinterpreting what was going on. People have to be aware that we’re getting this information through the filter of his own biases and stupidity.

One of the hardest things for an outsider to decipher, is how decisions are made inside an organization. It’s a complex process, with personalities and personal abilities involved. Barry only has a surface understanding of what was going on. Not too deep.

Senior

Just because Barry Jackson is saying that’s how it was, doesn’t actually mean that’s how it was. Or he could be misinterpreting what was going on. People have to be aware that we’re getting this information through the filter of his own biases and stupidity.

One of the hardest things for an outsider to decipher, is how decisions are made inside an organization. It’s a complex process, with personalities and personal abilities involved. Barry only has a surface understanding of what was going on. Not too deep.

To be clear Barry Jackson is simply another moron grasping at straws. Dude goes off of info Peter gives him half the time. He dont know shyt about shyt. He constantly either makes shyt up or gives outdated info

Recruit

The fact that this thread has made it to 2 pages is already giving this way more attention than it needs.

What Doherty was doing here isn't much, if at all, different than the majority of schools do it. Y'all are acting like Doherty handled all recruiting and the position coaches just met the players on the first day of camp. There's a reason Alabama has 50 staffers. This is a year-round, labor intensive business. 10 coaches can't do it themselves, and they don't anywhere else.

Dejazmach

People like Cooney, DVD, Andy Vaughn etc are the guys who will initiate first contact with players letting them know if the staff is interested & send to the coaches who then watch the tape & eval if they're good enough for an offer.

The coaches have quality control assistants & GA's who job it is to watch film & do the grunt work while the position coaches are handling their other responsibilities.

The recruiting department puts together events, keeps in contact with players & sets up UV's & OV's for the players, the coaches keep in contact with them as well & will evaluate their tape & in person camp performances.

There's nothing wrong with having the coaches be the main evaluators of potential prospects, it's a collaborative effort it won't just be the coaches doing it alone, they'll just have the main say on if the prospect is worthy of an offer.

All-ACC

I remember when we battled recruiting DVD vs. Urban Meyer back in the day. One of the few battles we won against him. DVD is probably still faster than most of our players but never lived up to the hype.